Will India help Afghanistan squeeze Pakistan’s water supply by damming a river?

A new water war is brewing, and India may find itself involved. New Delhi has extended its support to Afghanistan, which has ...
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Afghanistan and the Long Shadow of Bagram

The former U.S. and Soviet air base has been a central location for empires for thousands of years. Does Trump truly ...

Pakistan warns Afghanistan of a stern response to any new militant attacks

Pakistan’s defense minister has warned Afghanistan that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by militants on Pakistani soil ...

N. Korea missile image falsely linked to Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict

As deadly border clashes erupted between Pakistan and Afghanistan in early October 2025, an image of a missile circulated ...
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Managed Instability: China’s Quiet Preference for a Contained Afghanistan

Beijing appears to have realized that sustainable peace in Afghanistan will require more effort than it can spare.

Some 4 years after fleeing Afghanistan, a group of refugees returns to international competition

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a ...

‘Infuriated with Afghanistan exercising sovereignty’: MEA on Pakistan calling Taliban India’s proxy

As Pakistan continues to claim that the Taliban are acting at India’s behest, India has said that Pakistan is infuriated with ...

‘Will go deep into Afghanistan to hunt TTP’: Pakistan’s empty threat or prelude to another proxy war?

Khawaja Asif accused the Taliban government of harbouring fighters of TTP, the militant group responsible for a string of ...